ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief Summary: This review describes the widespread global issue of childhood rickets, focusing on how disparities in health, nutrition, and environmental factors contribute to its prevalence.Nutritional rickets is primarily caused by deficiencies in vitamin D or calcium, often due to inadequate nutrition or lack of sunlight exposure. This leads to impaired bone development in children, with potential lifelong consequences. Rickets has historically been ...

Diabetes Care. 2022 Apr 1;45(4):864-870. doi: 10.2337/dc21-1430. PMID: 35104325.Brief Summary: This study followed up a nationwide cohort of pregnant women (with and without gestational diabetes, GDM) and assessed their risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus up to 10 years later. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes increased with the number of GDM pregnancies.About 6%...

J Bone Miner Res. 2022 Feb;37(2):179-184.Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/34464000/In Brief: Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) and parathyroid hormone (PTH) both negatively regulate serum phosphate by increasing renal phosphate excretion. The clinical observation that both PTH and FGF23 are needed for adequate renal phosphate handling is confirmed in this experimental patient stu...

To read the full abstract: Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e730–36. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30104-2• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. Universal health coverage is at the centre of SDG #3 but lacks metrics that make it possible to assess how effective the provided healthcare is.• WHO and UNICEF convened a group of ...

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes (Lond). 2019;43(6):1256–1268This epigenome-wide association study in stromal/stem cells (ASCs), derived from subcutaneous adipose tissue samples of lean and obese subjects, revealed a specific DNA methylation signature in adipocyte precursors associated with obesity, which has a significant impact on the metabolic phenotype and the mitochondrial...

To read the full abstract: Genet Med. 2019 Jan;21(1):233–242.This study documented the clinical features and molecular diagnoses of 9 infants with persistent hyperinsulinism and Kabuki syndrome via a combination of sequencing and copy-number profiling methodologies.KS is characterized by typical facial features (long palpebral fissures with eversion of the lat...

To read the full abstract: Am J Med Genet A. 2019 Apr;179(4):542–551.This study describes 7 individuals with hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia caused by NSD1 gene mutations with 3 having persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia.The underlying mechanisms that lead to hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycemia in Sotos syndrome are not known. Since most of the previous...

Eur J Endocrinol, 2021. 185(5): p. 691-705. PMID: 34516402Brief Summary: This study evaluated the prevalence of genetic variants in children with idiopathic short stature (ISS) using next-generation sequencing (NGS). Heterozygous variants in known genes involved in skeletal physiology were identified in almost 20% of children. The use of advanced genetic analysis techniques will lead to an increased identification of new genetic variants, expand...

Brief Summary: This exome-wide association study conducted in the UK Biobank cohort (n=454 787) and in two non-European cohorts, the Mexican MCPS cohort (n=141 046) and the Pakistani PGR cohort (n=37 800), identified a association between rare protein-truncating variants (PTVs) in the APBA1 and the BSN genes and adult-onset obesity, suggesting two new genes as possible causes for monogenic obesity. Rare PTVs in BSN were also associated with Type 2 di...